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Bell may refer to:

In organology:

• Bell (instrument), a simple sound-making device
  • Altar bell, a bell rung during the Catholic Mass
  • Bell (school), a bell that signals transitions during a school day
  • Bermuda carriage bell, used in vehicles as a warning to pedestrians
  • Church bell, a bell hanging in a church tower
  • Electric bell, such as a doorbell or buzzer
  • Handbell, a handheld bell, rung singly (such as a school bell) or in tuned sets played by a bell choir
  • Last call bell, a bell that signals the closing of a bar
  • Orchestra bell, better known as Glockenspiel
  • Ship's bells, bells which mark time on a ship
  • Slave bell, used to regulate slavery
  • Tubular bell, used in tuned sets as in a longcase clock, chime (orchestral), chime (organ) or chime (tower)
• Bell (wind), the round, flared opening of a wind instrument opposite the mouthpiece
• Bell character, a character that produces an audible signal at a terminal
• Bell effect, a musical technique similar to an arpeggio
• Bell unit, measure of the ratio between two quantities

In communication:

• Alexander Graham Bell, telephone inventor
• Bell (typeface), a typeface developed for use in phone books
• Bell Labs, a research & development laboratory
• Bell System, North America's telephone system from the 1880s to the 1980s
• Regional Bell operating company, sometimes known as "Baby Bells"
  • AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest, Bell Telephone Companies, formerly known by names such as New Jersey Bell, Illinois Bell, etc.
  • Bell Canada
  • BellSouth
  • Cincinnati Bell
• The Bell Telephone Hour, a television show
• Bell Canada, one of the major Canadian telecommunications companies, including subsidiaries Bell Aliant, Bell Nordiq, Télébec, NorthernTel, Bell Sympatico, Bell Mobility, and Bell ExpressVu

In business:

• Bell & Howell, a camera and film company
• Bell Aircraft Corporation, later Bell Helicopter Textron
• Bell Piano and Organ Company, a piano maker in Guelph, Canada
• Bell Records, one of four record labels
• Bell Shakespeare Company, Australian theatre company
• Bell Sports, a maker of bicycle helmets
• Packard Bell, a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
• Taco Bell, a fast food company
• The Bell Tea Company, New Zealand tea packer
• Bell Pottinger Group, public relations, corporate responsibility and design

In geography:

• Bell, California
• Bell, Florida
• Bell Acres, Pennsylvania
• Bell Buckle, Tennessee
• Bell Center, Wisconsin
• Bell City, Missouri
• Bells Corners, Ontario
• Bell County, Kentucky
• Bell County, Texas
• Bell Gardens, California
• Bell Hill, Washington
• Bell Island
• Bell Park, Victoria
• Bell Township, Pennsylvania
• Bellville
• Belles, Dominica (named after British commissioner Sir Hesketh Bell)

In biology:

• Bell Miner, colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia
• Bell pepper, Cultivar Group of the species Capsicum annuum
• Bellbird, several kinds of bird in various regions of the world that are noted for their far-carrying bell-like call
• Diving bell spider, spider which lives entirely under water
• Bell, the umbrella-shaped, non-stinging part of medusas in jellyfish
• Bell, the corolla of a flower

In mathematics:

• Bell curve, illustrates normal distribution in statistics
  • Bell curve grading, a use of the bell curve in comparing student achievement and converting percent and percentile grades to letter grades
• Bell number, the number of partitions of a set with n members
• Bell's theorem, the most famous legacy of the late John Bell

In transportation:

• Bell housing, part of an automotive transmission
• Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel for diving below water
• USS Bell, one of two ships in the United States Navy

In other fields:

• Bell (crater), a crater on Earth's moon
• Bell (fictional currency), a fictional currency in Nintendo's Animal Crossing series of video games
• "Bells" (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
• Bell barrow, a burial mound
• Bell beaker, prehistoric pottery
• Bell bottoms, a style of trousers
• Bell Centre, a stadium in Montreal
• Bell High School, one of several schools
• Bell lineage, a lineage or clan of the Duala people of Cameroon
• Bell pit, a type of coal mine
• Bell railway station, Melbourne, railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Saved by the Bell, popular American teen sitcom that is known under varying titles
• The Bell, a supposed anti-gravity experiment by Nazi scientists
• The Liberty Bell, American bell of great historic significance
• "Bell", a song by Avail from their 2000 album One Wrench

[edit] See also

• Bel
• Bell (surname)
• Belle
• List of people by name: Bell
• Bryce Bell loves Joshua Bunter

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